SkimmIQ – 3D Cube Reinvented
New kind of 3D cube puzzle
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
SkimmIQ Lab and Pattern Studio is here: build your own patterns, import states, replay sequences, share links, and use AI solver tools to hunt for human methods.
Meet SkimmIQ - the cube puzzle that looks familiar, then breaks your expectations.
No fixed centers. No fixed edges. No fixed corners.
You do not rotate classic layers. You slide complete color tapes around the cube along three axes.
If the classic cube is chess, SkimmIQ is chess with gravity turned off.
SkimmIQ is both a puzzle game and a compact lab for creating, exploring, sharing, replaying, and studying new cube-like patterns.
NEW: PATTERN STUDIO
Create your own valid SkimmIQ patterns directly on the 3D cube:
- Start with an empty design or restore the current state
- Choose a color and place stickers one by one
- Rotate and zoom the cube while you work
- Track how many stickers of each color remain
- Apply a completed pattern directly to the puzzle
- Explore supported patterns with solver and Path tools
- Record, replay, and share your creations through SkimmIQ Lab
Create a pattern, explore a route, and publish the result as a single shareable link.
SKIMMIQ LAB
SkimmIQ Lab gives you tools for states and replay sequences:
- Import shared SkimmIQ links directly into the app
- Open a shared state or a complete replay
- Record your own moves, including solver Path playback
- Replay sequences step by step
- Export a state or replay as a shareable link
- Copy links, open web previews, and share them with friends or puzzle communities
Shared links also work on the web. SkimmIQ tools let you create states, edit and reverse move sequences, preview replays, and build visual share pages.
WHY THIS MATTERS
AI solvers can solve supported SkimmIQ layouts very effectively, but no clear general human method has been discovered yet.
SkimmIQ Lab and Pattern Studio help players experiment, share patterns, compare ideas, and search for understandable algorithms - the kind of breakthrough that made classic cube-solving culture so fascinating.
SOLVER TOOLS
When you get stuck, supported layouts can use solver assistance:
- Analyze the current cube state
- Find a legal path back to solved
- Preview the solution with Path playback
- Improve IDEA hints when the solver finds a useful route
- Use AI-assisted solvers on the hardest supported layouts
AI-assisted solvers were tested on thousands of benchmark scrambles across supported hard layouts, with 100% success in our tests.
WHY SKIMMIQ IS DIFFERENT
- Tape-based mechanics with genuinely new movement logic
- Surface-following animation that makes every move easy to read
- Patterns that can change across the whole cube in a single move
- Intuitive controls: swipe a sticker to move a tape, drag outside the cube to rotate the scene, and pinch to zoom
- Long press to peek inside the cube
- Long press outside the cube to recall the solved state
- Undo, Redo, and IDEA hints
- Solver and Path tools for supported layouts
- Scramble presets plus Custom Scramble
- Multiple layouts from beginner-friendly to advanced
- Different color sets for easier starts or harder challenges
- Practice mode for learning
- Competition mode for rewards and leaderboard runs
BUILT FOR
- Puzzle fans who want something new
- Cube lovers looking for a fresh challenge
- Logic and spatial-thinking players
- Pattern creators and experimenters
- Curious players who want to help discover a human method
FREE TO PLAY, WITH OPTIONAL UPGRADES
- Weekly subscription
- One-time lifetime unlock
Both remove ads and unlock premium features.
Think you've mastered cube puzzles?
Perfect. Now create something new - and help discover how humans should solve it.
Terms of Use (EULA):
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Further refined direct-follow tape-rotation gestures and controls.
Improved gesture handling with haptic/audio feedback.
Stability and performance improvements.
The developer, PAWEL KRZYSZTOF FABER, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
- Seller
- PAWEL KRZYSZTOF FABER
- Size
- 58.2 MB
- Category
- Puzzle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.5 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.5 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.5 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- This app is rated 4+ with content restrictions.
Some content may be rated higher, and may therefore be restricted and managed by the developer through in-app controls. - In-App Controls
Age Assurance
Infrequent
Contests
Contains
Advertising
User-Generated Content
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Premium Weekly Subscription $2.99
- GoPremium LifeTime $9.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Artea Pawel Faber